In this true tale of a tremendous cheddar, Candace Fleming asks: "What weighs 1,234 pounds, stands four feet high, and is made from the milk of nine hundred and thirty-four cows?"

"Why, a giant cheese of course!"

When President Thomas Jefferson was serving Norton cheese at the White House, Elder John Leland suggested that everyone could help make a whopping big cheddar, a cheese so large that President Jefferson would be serving Cheshire cheese at the White House for years and years!

After gathering all the milk and making the cheese curds, they had to press the curds in an apple press. Finally they haul the cheese in a wagon to ripen in Elder John's barn. To get the cheese to President Jefferson's New Year's Day party, they have to put it on a sleigh and take it to Hudson, New York. Finally it sails down the Hudson River and is then carted on a sleigh to Washington.

Apparently, the cheese was served for years and someone said it lasted until 1805.

Just by the way, cheddar curds can't be beat. Give me the curds
instead of the pressed cheese any day!

Cute story for young cheese lovers.

If you love cheese, look for Paula Lambert's Cheese Lover's Cookbook & Guide. She explains how cheese is made and even includes recipes.

I have read this book to my two grandsons (Brooks nearly 4 and Pierce nearly 3 yrs old) and their interest and response to this book has been fun and surprising. The story interests them and the art illustrates the story very well. They enjoy finding the characters from the story in the associated pictures. Phineas Dobbs' grumbling has become an inside family joke. The boys go around the house often repeating his comment, "I told you, it can't be done!" while placing their arms across their chest.

The book has provoked them to ask many questions which has proved to be a good teaching opportunity as well.

They read everytime before naptime and bedtime and they have insisted that this book be included each time for about three weeks now. I highly recommend this book for reading to children 3 years old and up.

After reading this book aloud to my second grade class, I served up different kinds of cheese! The kids loved it (since their mouths were watering for cheese after listening and seeing Schindler's tasty looking illustrations!).An outstanding slice of obscure history! Editor Melanie Kroupa is an expert at delivering great, obscure stories from history (see STEAMBOAT by Judith Heide Gilliland).Outstanding storytelling!

How I laughed and agonized at the adventures of the heroine Lucy and her dear friends, Cassy and Grace. It was inspiring to have the lead lady be in her 4th season and a little less perfect then most Regency misses. She actually likes to eat hearty and it shows. There was not too much emphasis on her weight - just made her more endearing and real. All the characters acted like I think they would in real life. Lord Rune was so torn by the emotions he felt for Lucy. He just wanted to help her out - not fall in love with her! How did it happen?? The story flowed very evenly from beginning to end. I enjoyed the fact there was a little turmoil towards the end. Made it an interesting read.

This is a perfect little gem of a Regency romance, a model of how very, very good this genre can be. Although I was led to believe---by several fellow writers who recommended it---that it was hilarious, it is not so much hilarious as tongue-in-cheek funny. Very funny. The author has an accomplished sense of humor. Lucy Saint-Clair, after 4 Seasons, has not taken. No suitors save an elderly baron one step away from sticking his spoon in the wall. Her Godmother Tabitha Theale, desperate, seeks help from her dissolute brother, Ernest, Lord Rune, to bring Lucy into fashion. Lucy is overweight, opinionated, devoid of most of the social graces, and equipped with fearsome, forbidding, thick, dark eyebrows. She is pitifully unaware of how to play the game at Almack's marriage mart. Ernest, jaded, older, tired of life, is jolted back to that life by the unexpected originality of this woman. Nothing he had ever thought he wanted, but, when the realization does hit that she is the only woman on God's sweet earth for him, he goes after her with a vengeance. (Takes him too long, but Regency heroes---think Mr. Darcy---are obtuse in the extreme.) This novel is peopled with wonderful secondary characters with wonderful names. Laurence Feather; Diligence, his housemaid and other; Cassy and Grace, the Theale sisters; Mina and Letty, who make too brief an appearance, Lucy's twin sisters; Tabitha, a determined mother and matchmaker; Sybil Rant, the unaccommodating modiste, who knows everything about everybody; Bibble, Puffwort, Pudder, and a slew of other well-meaning (and put-upon) servants. A delight for those who value well written prose and unusually lovely turns of phrase. It is a perfect little book. In romance novel parlance, a keeper. According to what I've heard, Chloe Cheshire aka Laura Amy Schlitz, is no longer writing Regencies. Now, that IS a shame!

Brilliantly witty period piece; cure for Austen withdrawal. This is a brilliantly witty period piece; once you've read and re-read Jane Austen, this gives you something to read! There's an improbable heroine (stout, temperamental) and an equally unlikely hero. Cheshire's characters are fully fleshed out, and the humor is character-driven. The witty dialog and observations are also a treat. A joy!

As someone who works privately with dissertation students, I highly recommend this book. When students feel overwhelmed with the dissertation process, I recommend that they buy this book; it answers many of the questions they have about the dissertation process. My clients tell me that Chesire is correct: the best dissertation is a finished dissertation!

I have been working out 4-5 days a week for the past 18 months, doing weights and cardio. I was getting good results, but not great results. When I found "Body Dynamics", I was looking for a book that would focus on weight lifting for women, since I have read that weight lifting is the key to weight loss and getting a more "cut up" look. "Body Dynamics" covers the different muscle groups, how to work each group (with machines or free weights), the order in which each group should be worked and it includes a few different workout schedules, depending on the level of the workout. It also has pictures to illustrate all the different lifting techniques/positions.

I would highly suggest this book to anyone who is just starting to use weights in their workout or anyone who wants to focus on certain parts of the body (with the use of weights). Although I have done light weight-training over the past 10 years, I learned a few new things that have revolutionized my workouts.

I am really excited about the book and thrilled with my results!

Germans authors apart, this is the best academic book in this vast subject in the English speaking world. The Publisher should seriously consider making it available again in a new, revised and updated edition.

This 13th edition of the well-known Cheshire and Fifoot's Law of Contracts makes a wonderfull update of the acclaimed legal work. Cheshire and Fifoot's original, which has both Australian and Singapore-Malay version, enjoys popularity all over the world. The Historical Chapter 2, already included in the previous edition in a major addition to this valuable work. Through its chapter you can trace the life of contracts in Common Law with great easeness. The whole book gives a thorough picture of contracts in Common Law countries, and provides the reader with useful references and a schrewd insight into the matter. Very recommendable.

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If you enjoy suspense, mystery, and the magic of summer with the story of girl struggling with grief and a special need.. this book is for you... Butts does a great job with keeping the suspense alive throughout the whole book... Read this book for a graduate class issue study on deaf culture... SO GLAD I DID>> it is a great book.. great for a classroom teacher to read aloud or curl up with on a bad weather day.... discover the magic the chesire moon plays in miranda's life...

Morris, the 'renaisance man' composer, historian, writer, singer, family man and dog lover, has excelled himself with this biography of Chesire. If Guy Gibson was the Liverpool AFC of WWII war bomber pilot biography then this is the Arsenal. Expertly written, his scholarship shines forth on every page, it appears their isn't a source he hasn't exhausted!!!!!! He must have locked himself away for at least 8 and a half years to produce this biographical gem. Let us hope that their is more to come and that lack of time doesn't triumph over his next book.

As a women studies librarian, I do a fair bit of reading on both feminism and glbt rights. If you're like me, it's been a while since you've read something truly "new" in this area -- ideas that take you by surprise and that you keep turning it over and over again in your mind for the sheer pleasure of thinking new things.

This book, broadly defined, examines the relationship between feminism and lesbianism. Although some have argued that the feminist movement and the movement for glbt rights are synonymous or at least closely aligned, Calhoun reveals places where they are brought into contradiction or tension. One of Calhoun's major arguments revolves around the family -- a place that heterosexual women have traditionally needed freedom FROM but that lesbians are still fighting for freedom TO. She also argues convincingly that fitness for family life is linked to fitness for civic life, and that it is precisely our "unfitness" for family, rather than our sexuality per se, that renders gay and lesbian people second-class citizens today. As someone who has always resisted the idea that marriage and family should be queer movement priorities, I was not an easy sell on this last point, but I found her arguments clearly articulated and ultimately convincing.

The book is academic, but accessible to those with some background in feminist thought. Calhoun is a philosopher, and the style of logical argument she employs may take some getting used to for those outside the discipline. As someone who generally reads social science, I found her style a joy at the beginning (how often are we treated to a feminist writer who clearly explains her assumptions in the first chapter?) and a burden by the end (now I will review where we are in my argument so far, and make my next point). Even so, this slim volume makes a major intellectual contribution to queer theory and it deserves far more attention than it has received thus far. Calhoun gives me hope that academic feminism is still alive and kicking and producing new ideas worth thinking about.

Today, when imperious Management is confused with Leadership and many "leaders" at the highest levels of business and government have thrown moral practice aside for personal power and profit, Dr. Cheshire's book is a charismatic call for an ethical rebirth of Leadership. Since completing a Master's level program he taught in 1997, with a array of stellar guests, I have followed the ideas laid out in the Quantum Civics Paradigm presented in Leading By Heart.

It is a call to arms for those chivalrous enough to place a standard higher than reward, in their lives, their work and their voluntary activities. Dr. Cheshire states the sound philosophy of doing the greatest good, at the least expense, for the greatest number of people, over the longest period, in any endeavor. Leading By Heart is also the public presentation of his theories of organizational DNA and the formula for assessing organizational potential, I=am². These are exciting ideas with great potential in the fields of leadership and fundraising.

The material in this book has moved me in my career and personal life, and I have been forever changed by it. Read it, use it and the world will be better for your being here. That is the promise in each of us. That is the potential of Leading By Heart.

Hank Lamb
Director
Pros & Cons Project
Livingston, TX & Perris, CA

Dr. Cheshire does a wonderful job of communicating the quantum makeup of the character trait we call leadership. While his work is centered in philanthropy, his research and conclusions have application to all aspects of living. Anyone fascinated with the non physical nature of our physical universe will appreciate and recognize the truth of Dr. Cheshire's words.

Leading by Heart outlines a leadership model which I have used extensively since studying with Dick Cheshire at Chapman University. The model applies to not-for-profit organizations and businesses. In fact, I have applied his leadership principles to all my classes and writing projects. The result has been greater clarity and focus on the importance of personal responsibility. I recommend this book to every voluntary leader in need of a new perspective on the challenges before them.